Catherine Opie, Untitled #10 (Surfers)

Catherine Opie, Untitled #10 (Surfers), 2003, Chromogenic print, 50 x 40".

“I’m a multidimensional person—I don’t have a singular identity. I’m not just Cathy Opie the leather-dyke artist. I’m Cathy Opie the person who’s interested in cities, architecture, landscape, my family. People say, ‘Your work is so diverse,’ but it’s actually not that diverse when you take a broad look or when you walk through this installation at the Guggenheim. There’s a strong aesthetic identity and concern with formalism that travels through the different bodies of work. I’m working with diverging layers of what it means to be human in these different contexts.”

––Catherine Opie’s 500 Words for artforum.com.

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